Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-27
THE KAISER COMES.
How THE PEOPLE OF BERLIN VEL
COME THEIR SOVEREIGN.


He Rides From the Railroad Station
Almost AIone-A Crowd Waiting for
the Emperor-His Appearance at the
Wiudows-Enthusiasm
The emperor has come home, Berlin is
again a city of life and hustle, and the Ger
man crowd again daily gathers Inter den
Linden to see its beloved kaiser come to the
palace window and bow and smile to them.
His home coming. after his two months alb
sence, was in simple fashion except for the
crowd that awaited him.
He was to come in from his Babelsberg
palace, near Potsdam, an hour from Berlin,
on Aug 81. He would arrive at 1;SO O'Clock,
so the police on duty near the palace in
formed the crowd gathering there as early as
0 o'clock. They waited hour after hour,
some holding to good points Of view, others
moving up and down the Linden.
The crowd before the emperor's palace is
an every day scene when he is here The
people never tire of it. The feeling grows
with the years Of the old sovereign, for they
know that man past 90 is not likely to smile
and bow to them from his window much
longer The German crowd is not gentle
one 1t pushes and scrambles and is frequently
rade On the other hand, it is not noisy. The
people will stand for two or three hours before
the emperors palace, patiently waiting, and
almost silent They will push and press for
eligible places. but without any words. If
the people choose to stand before the palaces
all day, they may do SO, provided they do
Ell
back to the open space about the big eques-
trian statue Of Frederick the Great. Here
the police do not, perhaps dare not, interfere.
This is directly in front of the emperor's win
dows But on the day Of the kaisers return
the crowd WAS much too large for the protec-
ton of Frederick the Great. 1t spread all
along the Linden, where the kaiser drove from
the station
THE EMPEROR's ARRIVAL
Allow will the emperor Gomez | asked of a
German workman standing near by.
"Oh, like anybody else. Alone, perhaps, in
his plain carriage, you know"
A little later a plain, open victoria and
pair of black horses left the palace gates and
drove to the station to bring the emperor
The emperor was not quite alone. His fa-
vorite aide, Count Lehendortf, who is usually
with him, sat on his left, wearing the brilliant
uniform of tn Garie du Corps, his silver
helmet shining out from the tuft of white
feathers The emperors uniform was that of
an infantry general and was strikingly plain.
IL was of dark blue CLOTH the coat alone re-
lieved by collar and cuffs of scarlet cloth. He
wore a cap of dark blue cloth, with a band of
scarlet cloth around it.
Ael ,aS Ia oil no ind
ing, his hand raised in salute, looking not at
all like a sick man, but quite well the cheers
broke forth, and, like wave Of sound, rolled
on after him, swelling into "Hochi Hochl
Hoch!r shouts of delight and satisfaction
And when the carriage IaSsed on to the pal
ace door the crowd rushed across the street,
closed in about the portico, and the police
made an effort to stay the tide
The kaiser stepped from the lowly victoria,
not as a man of 90, but as one twenty years
younger might A little stoop of the shoulders,
but otherwise the tall form is erect The
kaiser has never used cane, and will not
use one now But his step does not show the
feebleness and uncertainty of extreme age
No footman was in attendance Count I,e-
hendorif passed around the carriage to the
emperors side and waited for him to 60 in,
then followed into the palace. The trim
Young cnachman i'll black and silver livery
drove slowly back to the gate, handling the
| ribbons with conscious pride The crowd
watched the carriage i'll pleased silence until
| it disappeared behind the gates Then the
people moved about to rest themselves
But not to 60 away
| AT THE WINDOW
They waited nearly another hour The po-
| lice told them that the emperor would hardly
| come to the window; that he was fatigued
and must get well rested for the review the
next day. But the people knew better and
| they waited. Umbrellas were put down to
| give an unobstructed view of the corner win
| dow, where the emperor most often appears.
| All the babies were hoisted on the shoulders
| of their fathers, or raised as high as possible
in their mothers arms, and the small boys
squeezed into every opening along the front
| of the crowd.
| Then the emperor came to the window, as
| they knew he would. They threw up hats,
waved handkerchiefs, and shouted ana dashed
| in mass across the street to get nearer the
window Then "Hochl Hoch. Hoch!" ex-
| pressing the height of German enthusiasm,
| burst out, and the shouts must have pene-
trated the very walls of the palace The fine,
| kindly face at the window beamed with
smiles, and the next minute the old kaiser had
4 his handkerchief up waving it at the crowd
| Then the men and women laughed with de
| light, the babies clapped their hands, and the
small boys, irrepressible i'll Germany as else
where, vented their joy in shril whistles 1t
was enough for one day. The kaiser was at
| home the peODIa were satisfied and the crowd
| dispersed.
| Later in the afternoon the empress came,
| driving quietly from the station, unattended
to the palace. Her open carriage was drawn
| by pair of brown horses, and the coachman,
smooth faced young fellow, wore silver and
| brown livery The empress is fifteen years
| younger than the emperor, but looks more
than fifteen years his senior. Few people
were about, and the empress arrival caused
no demonsuration.-New York Sun.